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IoT device vendor Wyze says a server leak exposed data, including email addresses, camera user IDs, and WiFi SSIDs, of ~2.4M customers from Dec. 4 to Dec. 26

Details for 2.4 million users were exposed online for 22 days.  —  Wyze, a company that sells smart devices like security cameras …

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Discussion

  • @wesbos Wes Bos on x
    Been a huge fan of Wyze and it's really disappointing to see sloppy / careless management of our data. Doesnt look like any camera access was leaked, but some dat was and it doesn't make me feel good. huge step back for confidence in IOT https://forums.wyzecam.com/...
  • @mayhemdayone Bob Diachenko on x
    As per my records, Wyze had huge Elasticsearch cluster publicly exposed. It included 1,807,201,457 records: log data, API requests and events. https://forums.wyzecam.com/...
  • @gabsmashh @gabsmashh on x
    prediction: 2020 is going to be the year of scrambling for IoT security. https://www.cnet.com/...
  • @mattdlockyer Matt Lockyer on x
    This is happening to every company on Earth eventually... https://www.cnet.com/...
  • @iansherr Ian Sherr on x
    Me: Ugh. I expect this from my WiFi-enabled refrigerator, not a home camera company. Also me: I wonder what interesting WiFi ssid's people have come up with. https://twitter.com/...
  • @campuscodi Catalin Cimpanu on x
    This is not how “responsible disclosure” works. In the past, I've waited weeks for some companies to secure servers. These guys couldn't wait a f***ing day. Talk about being unprofessional. 14 minutes (my bad, not 9) means you didn't actually care about disclosure at all https://…
  • @davezatz Dave Zatz on x
    Wyze has added additional information about the database exposure. The “researcher” who publicly disclosed the info sounds more like a hacker, or at the very least, a hack. https://forums.wyzecam.com/...
  • @troyhunt Troy Hunt on x
    This one impacting @WyzeCam looks pretty serious. Original public disclosure (which looks like it may have been made prematurely) is here: https://blog.12security.com/ wyze/ https://twitter.com/...
  • @wyzecam Wyze on x
    Everyone should be required to login to their Wyze app again due to a security precaution taken this afternoon. You can learn more here: https://forums.wyzecam.com/...
  • @aaron_pearce Aaron Pearce on x
    Well this isn't good for Wyze. Emails, Alexa tokens, API tokens, WiFi SSIDs, internal network layouts and more. https://twitter.com/...